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  • How to rebrand and zoosh up a hotel

    Furama Hotel, Darling Harbour When is a new hotel not quite a new hotel? When it is rebranded by an international group, zhooshed up to meet the demands and wants of guests and given a total personality transplant. Sounds about right? The Furama Hotel Darling Harbour, Sydney is a welcome addition to the Furama family…

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    July 6, 2024
    Accommodation, Australia, City sights, City stays, Consume, Culture, Food, Heritage, Hotels, Markets, Travel
  • Overtourism or over tourism?

    If travel is a passion of yours (obviously, why else would you be here?), you’ll have heard the term overtourism. Whether it was Barcelona and Japan restricting the number of Airbnbs, Venice taxing day trippers introducing strict rules around where you can sit, or Croatia having to limit how many people can visit the city…

    bmalzard

    March 5, 2024
    Travel
  • How to spice up your life

    Morocco bound? Head for the souks and find the spices to recreate the regions’ dishes in the afterglow of a Moroccan holiday. Wandering through the souks or bazaars of the cities and towns of Morocco (which are always buzzing with shopping excitement and are immaculate and clean) you are drawn to stalls that shine with…

    bmalzard

    July 19, 2023
    Travel
  • How to solve a mystery

    or – how to solve a mystery picnic – or . . . . For a birthday, Christmas, reward or any time present really I’m loving receiving a themed gift voucher. I’ve been lucky enough to receive vouchers for numerous afternoon teas (embraced with gusto) – at lots of lovely and varied locations; a sky…

    bmalzard

    May 4, 2023
    Travel
  • The prettiest town in the world

    Click on here to read about the prettiest town in the world . . .Hallstatt in Austria. MD-issue7-features-30-35 The prettiest town in the world

    bmalzard

    March 29, 2023
    Travel
  • England’s Peak of Perfection

    Or how to Pride and Prejudice – celebrating 250 years of Jane Austen. From heather-clad moors, grand homes, to rugged mountains and sweeping vales, pretty villages and resplendent gardens . . . it’s all here. I’m such a sucker for anything Pride and Prejudice, and as Miss Elizabeth Bennet and her aunt and uncle curve…

    bmalzard

    March 15, 2023
    Architecture, Travel
    Architecture, tourism, Travel
  • travelgaltravels.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/venice-as-the-day-begins/

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    February 2, 2023
    Travel
  • Rain

    #Bloganuary challenge She was the first to hear it. Much lighter than the scrape of claws or clumsy attempts at running across the corrugated iron roof. It was a smattering of pencil point taps. She lay on her back, now alert to the increasing noise on the tin roof and the murmurs of the household…

    bmalzard

    January 7, 2023
    Travel
  • Travel: New Zealand and how to Hobbit – it’s a shire thing! – Travelgal on the move

    Listening to callers on the radio today I heard many folk say they had never been to New Zealand . . . how can that be. So close and so beautiful. This was my first o/s journey in the 70s, and what an adventure. One of the callers today said she wanted to meet a……

    bmalzard

    December 19, 2022
    Travel
  • Stay in a Hobbit Hole New Zealand – NZ Travel Organiser

    Can you stay in a hobbit hole in New Zealand? Everyone has heard of the Hobbiton Movie Set Tour, but this is a true Lord of the Rings experience. — Read on www.nztravelorganiser.com/stay-hobbit-hole-new-zealand/

    bmalzard

    December 19, 2022
    Accommodation, Architecture, Beer, Glamping, New Zealand, Slow Travel, Travel
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